He felt that punishing Davis would only create more bitterness and make reconstruction the rebuilding of the South more difficult.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

And the bitterness helped lead to the rise of fascist dictator Adolph Hitler in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2010.11.11

This kind of justice made southerners feel even more bitterness toward the North.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Allegations left uninvestigated with regard to crimes of this nature, violations of human rights, will only serve to feed resentment, bitterness,anger,frustration."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"Exclusion is at the end of a complicated chain that often begins with poverty and the lack of education, involves the criminal justice system, the penal institution and often ends in isolation, bitterness and disfranchisement."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25